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From: hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: Use of Mathematica or Maple in education
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 91 11:48:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jun15.184943.5156@garfield.ncat.edu> kerm@garfield.ncat.edu (Cary Burnette) writes:
>Hello:
>
>I would like to get some information on computer based math packages;
>such as Mathematica or Maple. I would like to know how people like
>them in a college environment, specifically an Engineering environment.
>
>Thank you
>
>Cary Burnette (kerm@garfield.ncat.edu)
>
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>| Cary E. Burnette         kerm@linus.ncat.edu  |   Dept. Of Elect. Eng.   |
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We installed Maple in each of the computers in our Computer Classroom. We use itto teach mathematics courses ranging from calculus for non-science majors to
upper level algebra and analysis. We have given about a dozen different courses
by nearly the same number of faculty/staff and for the most part we are quite
pleased with its behavior. Two or three of our faculty are also using Maple in
some of their research investigations and have involved some graduate students
in its use. Overall, we are satisfied with its performance on all the platforms
which range from Amigas, to SUN and DEC workstations.

Herb


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